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Earthquakes

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Fathom wrote: »
    Magnitude 6.0 earthquake
    Affected countries: The Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Saint Barthélemy, Antigua and Barbuda, and Anguilla
    45 miles from Isabela, Puerto Rico · Sep 23, 8:23 PM

    The Bahamas really don't need any more disasters after Hurricane Dorian ..


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    gozunda wrote: »
    The Bahamas really don't need any more disasters after Hurricane Dorian ..
    Puerto Rico has not recovered from Maria. A category 5 hurricane. September 17, 2017.


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    Magnitude 6.7 earthquake 43 miles from Constitución, Constitucion, Chile · Sep 29, 8:57 AM Earth's plates always in motion.


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    Magnitude 5.0 earthquake 102 miles from Anchorage, AK · Oct 4, 5:28 AM


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    Earthquake levels appear normal. Not increasing.


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    Magnitude 5.2 earthquake 604 miles from Whakatane, New Zealand · Oct 13, 2:57 PM Wonders if more Pacific Rim activity? Ring of Fire? Less elsewhere?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    4.5 magnitude earthquake in California at 10:33pm west coast time(6:33am Irish time) and it was felt in San Francisco and Oakland areas. It's also two days before the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake which for people who lived through the one in 1989 might be a bit eerie.


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    Magnitude 5.9 earthquake 92 miles from Bengkulu City, Bengkulu, Indonesia · Oct 14, 3:23 PM


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    2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. Total damage at least $5.3 billion.


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    Significant Earthquakes - 2019. USGS list.


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    Magnitude 6.4 earthquake 9 miles from Guayanilla, Puerto Rico · Jan 7, 12:24 AM 10.0 km depth


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    Wow! Magnitude 7.7 earthquake Affected countries: The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras, and Cuba 87 miles from Montego Bay, Jamaica · 11:10 AM


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭764dak


    Fathom wrote: »
    Wow! Magnitude 7.7 earthquake
    Affected countries: The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras, and Cuba
    87 miles from Montego Bay, Jamaica · 11:10 AM

    It was at 2:10 PM (7:10 PM GMT)

    It was really long too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    Fathom wrote: »
    Wow! Magnitude 7.7 earthquake
    Affected countries: The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras, and Cuba
    87 miles from Montego Bay, Jamaica · 11:10 AM

    I am in region affected was nasty enough but no tsunami ( there was a wave that came through but it was small). Minor structural damage (sink holes, cracks, piping, septic tanks ) etc but a reminder that the area is not equipped to handle or prepare for a tsunami all mobile alerts failed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    764dak wrote: »
    It was at 2:10 PM (7:10 PM GMT)

    It was really long too.

    The 2.10pm is eastern time , 7:10pm UTC. It lasted less than 1 minute. There were 10+ aftershocks last evening one 6.1. One only today of note hopefully that’s the end of it.


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    Rock-and-roll. If these are preshocks, the next may be an 8.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    Fathom wrote: »
    Rock-and-roll. If these are preshocks, the next may be an 8.

    I Really hope not


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    Theory suggests that as the north & south poles lose the substantial weight of global warming, melting ice on top of their plates, they will rise and shift into other plates. Plates on plates, and many earthquakes about the world.


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    Aftershocks continue after Puerto Rico and Caribbean Sea earthquakes.


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    Magnitude 5.0 earthquake 9 miles from Guanica, Guánica, Puerto Rico · 6:45 AM


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    There have been 100s of earthquakes in the Granada area in the last week, but only 3 of over 4.0. My first experience of them, and a little nervous. There seems to be a regular flow of small tremors throughout the day and night.
    Last Saturday, Tuesday night and last night there were 4.0+ earthquakes. :eek:

    https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/es/earthquakes/spain-portugal.html


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    Granadino wrote: »
    There have been 100s of earthquakes in the Granada area in the last week, but only 3 of over 4.0.
    Mini-shocks to release pressure? Or pre-shocks of a coming big one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    Fathom wrote: »
    Mini-shocks to release pressure? Or pre-shocks of a coming big one?

    No idea 🀷*♂️


  • Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭zvone


    During Petrinja Mayor Darinko Dumbovic press conference 6.3 earthquake hit Croatia. Half of the town has been destroyed... 7 people died.





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    Couple ruptures late 2020. Los Angeles approaching Big One?


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    Magnitude 6.3 earthquake 100 miles from Papua New Guinea · Feb 6, 9:45 PM


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    Magnitude 7.7 earthquake Affected countries: New Caledonia and Vanuatu 292 miles from Vanuatu · 5:20 AM Wow! :eek:


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    Near New Zealand shakes for itself: 7.3 and 7.4 and 8.1. Tsunami warning! What's happening? Plates moving?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭Timmyr


    Fathom wrote: »
    Near New Zealand shakes for itself: 7.3 and 7.4 and 8.1. Tsunami warning!

    What's happening? Plates moving?

    Felt it lastnight, and now we have tsunami warnings


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    Timmyr wrote: »
    Felt it lastnight, and now we have tsunami warnings
    I live on the Pacific coast. Not that far above sea level. Such warnings make me pause.


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    M 5.5 - 131 km NE of Crane, Barbados


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    M3.3 and 4.0 within 30 minutes of each other in Los Angeles with the 4.0 happening at 4:44am west coast time(12:44pm Irish time).


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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    M3.3 and 4.0 within 30 minutes of each other in Los Angeles with the 4.0 happening at 4:44am west coast time(12:44pm Irish time).
    Continuing speculation about the Big One for LA. Something 8.0 and above. Not if, but when?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Fathom wrote: »
    Continuing speculation about the Big One for LA. Something 8.0 and above. Not if, but when?

    They seem to have been taking about it since the 1994 north ridge earthquake and as you say, having watched several documentaries, it’s not a case of if, it’s when. And there’s been many notable ones since then and thousands of earthquakes that barely register. And what’s different is these two recent ones where in LA not near it.


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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    They seem to have been taking about it since the 1994 north ridge earthquake and as you say, having watched several documentaries, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.
    Talking geologic time. A thousand years is a blink of an eye.


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    Magnitude 6.8 earthquake 24 miles from Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan · Apr 30, 6:27 PM


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    Earthquake Seismology. Free online classes from edX. The course explores the processes that cause earthquakes, as well as the methodologies used by seismologists to analyze seismograms, to measure source parameters, and to simulate the seismic wave impact at the Earth's surface.


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    Synthetic Aperture Radar: Hazards. "The first MOOC about Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing for disaster monitoring. Learn about weather and illumination-independent SAR remote sensing technology, and explore its applications to natural hazards including earthquakes..." Free online classes from edX.


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    A Resilient Future: Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction. "To introduce participants to existing and emerging technologies suitable for disaster risk reduction while promoting the overall aim of sustainable development. The course focuses on three main natural hazards- floods, landslides and earthquakes." Free online classes from edX.


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    58,018 earthquakes in the past 365 days.

    https://earthquaketrack.com/recent



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    Dec 20, 2021 — A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California. I felt this one!



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    7.3 M 60 miles from Tutuala, Timor-Leste. December 29, 2021.



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    5.5 approximately 591 miles from New Zealand.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,539 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    With the Afhanistan earthquake making the news , I had a Google of on earthquakes today. 58 !!. From Alaska ,to Japan, Purto Rico to Argentina. Really lucky in this country

    https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-68.65655,-162.42188&extent=84.9901,-27.42188&map=false



  • Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Daffodil.d


    There's 100s a day. I have an earthquake app on my phone. Just interested in the subject ever since the Pembrokeshire earthquake in the 80s. I was only a child but it woke me that morning. In the south. The app is called volcanos and earthquakes and you can set it to see only the big ones or all of them.. There's also a link within it that tells of activity is low moderate or high. The earth is always grumbling.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,539 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    What do you call the earthquake app,? I might get it. Fairly interested in stuff like this



  • Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Daffodil.d


    There it is



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